Ap Human Geography Chp.1 Vocab (By Rubenstein)

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Agricultural Density

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The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.

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Arithmetic Density

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The total number of people divided by the total land area.

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Base Line

Back 3

A line from east to west founded by the Land Ordinance act in order to facilitate the surveying and numbering townships in the US.

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Cartography

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The scientific process of drawing, recording, and designing maps.

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Concentration

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Amount of something spread out over in a given area.

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Connections

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Associations between items and people across a large space.

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Contagious Diffusion

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The fast spread of a fad or trend throughout a group of people.

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Cultural Ecology

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Geographical study or view over the relations between people and their given environment.

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Cultural Landscape

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The fashioning of a landscape by a cultural group.

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Culture

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Something that pertains to a group of people which includes beliefs, social forms, and material traits.

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Density

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The frequency which something exists in a given area.

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Diffusion

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The act of a spread of a fad or a feature from person to person over time.

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Distance Decay

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When an action/interaction or activity happens less and less and eventually disappears due to distance between people, plants, animals, ect.

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Distribution

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The arrangement of features or things across a space.

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Environmental Determinism

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An old approach that argued that the general laws sought out by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences.

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An environmental approach that asks how the environment caused social development.

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Expansion Diffusion

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The spreading of a fad from one place to another in a process that starts out slow but becomes faster as the fad gains popularity.

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Formal Region

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A region in which all it's inhabitants share common cultural and/or physical characteristics.

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Functional Region

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A population that is organized or built around a node.

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Geographic Information System

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A system that deals with geographic data such as storing, analyzing, organizing, and display.

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Global Positioning System

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A system that can locate anything on earth through a system of satellites.

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Globalization

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Something that involves the entire world which results the thing to be considered in a world wide scope.

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Greenwich Mean Time

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A time zone that has 0 degrees in longitude.

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Hearth

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A place from which innovation comes from.

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Hierarchical Diffusion

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The spread of an idea or fad from someone of power down to the people below them.

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Hitler

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International Date Line

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A not-so-straight that mostly follows 180 degrees longitude in which if you cross to the right it increases 24 hr and if you cross to the left it decreases 24 hr.

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Land Ordinance of 1785

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A law put out in 1785 which separated most of the US into townships to help with the selling of new land to settlers.

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Caused one of the other vocab terms.

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Latitude

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A system of degrees of numbers which illustrate the parallels from north to south on a map or globe.

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Flatitude

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Location

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The point where a certain object, place, or person lies on the Earth's surface.

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Longitude

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A system of degrees of numbers which illustrate/show the parallels from east to west on a map or globe.